Category Archives: Random Musings

Five or Six Weekends

I pulled into the drive last night and found my first tulip had opened. I took a photo, but it’s blurry. I think you can tell, from what’s goin on around that tulip, what I need to do with my … Continue reading

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SoCS — March

March. Bleh. March has never been my favorite. The boy one gets older every March. My he’s big now. Now he looks like The Mister only taller and broader. He is magical, what with his mathing and his technologing and … Continue reading

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Subtly Subpar Sub

I used to substitute teach quite a bit. I don’t now, as my own children have ruined me for all other children I have grown cynical and generally intolerant of other people’s children. I’m sure your children are exceptional, but the other … Continue reading

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Funny Phone Fings

We all tease The Mister because he’s one of those people who types forever to say very little. Are you familiar with THE BUBBLES? For a hundred years I stare at my phone, watchin the little bubbles dance. boy he must … Continue reading

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SoCS — Short & Sweet

I spent the week shopping. Please remember I hate shopping. Shopping on weekends is the worst. There are so many people out there. So I did it on the weekdays. Cause I was livin like Old Mother Hubbard. I made … Continue reading

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One-Liner Wednesday — Mixin Up Kisses

When I drop the kids off at school, I say, “Kiss my face!”   When The Mister drops the kids off at school, he says, “Pay the toll!” Or, what one morning, Moo referred to as, “Kiss the Troll!” One-Liner … Continue reading

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All Hail the Lawnmower

As I have told you countless times, before I had babies I knew virtually nothing about babies. (I know a lot about babies now. They’re the needy, wriggly, emotionally unstable people I had always suspected, but also they must be burped every … Continue reading

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Sometimes It Rains

During an SoCS post about coats, Dan commented “Maddie and I were standing out in the cold rain on Tuesday. She shook off the water and looked at me as if to say ‘Why are we here?’ I was like ‘If you … Continue reading

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Double the Whip

In honor of our beautiful warm weather here in February, I share with you a photo from the summer of 2004. My parents came to stay with the kids for the afternoon. When we returned, Sassy, almost two, wanted ‘some’ too. … Continue reading

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Notes on Fictional Business

Do y’all have notes at work? This is a thing. Like when you call the cable company, and you’re all, “My upstairs DVR doesn’t record channel 5,” and the guy says “Mrs. Mottern, we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you … Continue reading

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